March 2, 2010 (XX:8) Costa-Gavras, Z (1969, 127 min) Directed by Costa-Gavras Based on the novel by Vasilis Vasilikos Written by Jorge Semprún and Costa-Gavras Produced by Jacques Perrin, Ahmed Rachedi Original Music by Mikis Theodorakis Cinematography by Raoul Coutard Film Editing by Françoise Bonnot Yves Montand...The Deputy Irene Papas...Helene, the Deputy's wife Jean-Louis Trintignant...The Examining Magistrate Jacques Perrin...Photojournalist Charles Denner...Manuel François Périer...Public Prosecutor Pierre Dux...The General Georges Géret...Nick Bernard Fresson...Matt Marcel Bozzuffi...Vago (as Marcel Bozzufi) Julien Guiomar...The Colonel RAOUL COUTARD (16 September 1924, Paris, France-) did the cinematography for 81 films and tv series, some of which were COSTA-GAVRAS (12 February 1933, Loutra-Iraias, Greece-) Sauvage innocence/ Wild Innocence (2001), Le coeur fantôme/ The directed 21 films, some of which were Eden à l'Ouest /Eden Is West Phantom Heart (1996), La femme fardée (1990), Brennende Betten/ (2009), Mad City (1997), Lumière et compagnie /Lumière and Burning Beds (1988), Parachute (1986), La diagonale du fou/ Company (2009), Music Box (1989), Betrayed (1988), Conseil de Dangerous Moves (1984), L'emmerdeur/ A Pain in the A… (1973), famille/ Family Business (1986), Hanna K. (1983), Missing (1982), Embassy/ Target: Embassy (1972), The Southern Star/ L'étoile du Section special/ Special Section (1975), État de siège/ State of Siege sud (1969), Z (1969), La mariée était en noir/ The Bride Wore (1972), L'Aveu/ The Confession (1970), Z (1969), Un homme de Black (1968), Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), Week End (1967), La trop/ Shock Troops (1967), Compartiment tueurs/ The Sleeping Car chinoise (1967), 2 ou 3 choses que je sais d'elle/ Two or Three Murders (1965), and Les rates (1958). He won a Best Writing, Things I Know About Her (1967), Made in U.S.A. (1966), Pierrot le Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Oscar for fou (1965), Alphaville, une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution/ Missing and a nomination as best director for Z. Alphaville (1965), L'avatar botanique de Mlle Flora (1965), Une femme mariée: Suite de fragments d'un film tourné en 1964/ The MIKIS THEODORAKIS (29 July 1925, Chios Island, Greece-) Married Woman (1964), Bande à part/ Band of Outsiders (1964), composed for 68 films and tv series, some of which are Mariza Les baisers (1964), Le mépris/Contempt (1963), Les carabineers/ (2008), Barluschke (1997), Le brouillard (1993), Les clowns de The Carabineers (1963), Le petit soldat/ The Little Soldier (1963), Dieu (1986), Kostas (1979), Ifigeneia/ Iphigenia (1977), Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux/ My Life to Live (1962) Jules Dolofoniste ton Makario/Murder Makarios! (1975), Serpico (1973), et Jim/ Jules and Jim (1962), Chronique d'un été (Paris 1960)/ État de siege/ State of Siege (1972), The Trojan Women (1971), Z Chronicle of a Summer (1961), Une femme est une femme/ A (1969), Une balle au Coeur/ A Bullet Through the Heart (1966), Woman Is a Woman (1961), Lola (1961), Tire-au-flanc / The Army Angeloi horis ftera/ Angels Without Wings (1965), Alexis Zorbas/ Game (1960), Tirez sur le pianist/ Shoot the Piano Player(1960), À Zorba the Greek (1964), Phaedra (1962), Faces in the Dark (1960), bout de soufflé/ Breathless (1960), Petit jour (1960), Ramuntcho and Eva (1953). (1959), and La passe du diable/ The Devil’s Pass (1958). Costa-Gavras—Z—2 YVES MONTAND (13 October 1921, Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, dans l'île/Fire and Ice (1962), Les sept péchés capitaux/The Seven Tuscany, Italy - 9 November 1991, Senlis, Oise, Picardie, France, Deadly Sins (1962), Le puits aux trois verities/Three Faces of Sin of a heart attack) appeared in 59 films, some of which were IP5: (1961), Pleins feux sur l'assassin/Spotlight on a Murderer (1961), L'île aux pachyderms/ IP5: The Island of Pachyderms (1992), Le Austerlitz/The Battle of Austerlitz (1960), Estate violent/Violent choix des armes/ Choice of Arms (1981), Le fils/ The Son (1973), Summer (1959), Les liaisons dangereuses (1959), Et Dieu... créa la État de siege/ State of Siege (1972), Tout va bien/ All’s Well (1972), femme/…And God Created Woman (1956), La loi des rues/Laws of Le cercle rouge/ The Red Circle (1970), On a Clear Day You Can the Streets (1956), Si tous les gars du monde/If All the Guys in the See Forever (1970), Le diable par la queue/ The Devil by the Tail World (1956) (1969), Z (1969), Vivre pour vivre/ Live for Life (1967), Grand Prix (1966), Paris brûle-t-il?/ Is Paris Burning ? (1966), La guerre est JACQUES PERRIN (13 July 1941, Paris, France-) appeared in 127 finie/ The War Is Over (1966), My Geisha (1962), Sanctuary films and tv series, some of which were "La lance de la (1961), Les sorcières de Salem/The Crucible (1957), Django destinée"/”The Spear of Destiny (6 episodes, 2007), L'enfer/ Hell Reinhardt (1957), Napoléon/Napoleone (1955), Le salaire de la (2005), Le petit lieutenant/The Young Lieutenant (2005), "Frank peur/ The Wages of Fear (1953), Parigi è sempre Parigi/ Paris Is Riva" (6 episodes, 2003-2004), Le carnet rouge/ The Red Notebook Always Paris (1951), and Les portes de la nuit / Gates of the Night (2004), Les choristes/The Chorus (2004), Le pacte des loups/ (1946). Brotherhood of the Wolf (2001), Scènes de crimes/Crime Scenes (2000), Mafia rouge (1996), C'è Kim Novak al telefono/ Kim Novak IRENE PAPAS (3 September 1926, Chilimodion, Corynth, Greece-) Is on the Phone (1994), L'ombre/The Shadow (1992), Fuga dal appeared in 83 films and tv series, some of which were Um Filme paradise/Flight from Paradise (1989), "Garibaldi il generale" Falado/ A Talking Picture (2003), Podzimní návrat/ Returning in (1987), Le juge/The Judge (1984), Le sang du flamboyant (1981) Autumn (2001), Captain Corelli's Mandolin (2001), L'adoption/Adoption (1979), Section spéciale (1975), Home Sweet Inquietude/Anxiety (1998), The Odyssey (1997), Lettera da Home (1973), État de siege/State of Siege (1972), L'étrangleur/The Parigi/The Latest from Paris (1992), Les cavaliers aux yeux verts Strangler (1972), Goya, historia de una soledad (1971), Blanche (1990), Island (1989), The Assisi Underground (1985), Into the (1971), Peau d'âne/Donkey Skin (1970), L'invitata/The Uninvited Night (1985/I), Cristo si è fermato a Eboli/Christ Stopped at Eboli (1969), Z (1969), L'américain (1969), Vivre la nuit/ Love in the (1979), Ifigeneia/Iphigenia (1977), Noces de sang/Blood Wedding Night (1968), Un homme de trop/ Shock Troops (1967), La grimace (1976), Non si sevizia un paperino/ Don’t Torture Donald Duck (1966), Divertissement pour amoureux... et concierges (1966), (1972), Piazza pulita/ 1931: Once Upon a Time in New York Compartiment tueurs/ The Sleeping Car Murder (1965), Il (1972), El asesinato de Julio César (1972), The Trojan Women fornaretto di Venezia/ The Scapegoat (1963), La (1971), Anne of the Thousand Days (1969), Z (1969) The corruzione/Corruption (1963), Le soleil dans l'oeil/ Sun in Your Brotherhood (1968), The Desperate Ones (1968), "L'odissea"/ The Eyes (1962), La ragazza con la valigia/ Girl with a Suitcase (1961), Adventures of Ulysses (1968), A ciascuno il suo/We Still Kill the La vérité/The Truth (1960), Les tricheurs/The Cheaters (1958), La Old Way (1967), Alexis Zorbas/Zorba the Greek (1964), peau de l'ours (1957), and Les portes de la nuit/The Gates of the Ilektra/Electra (1962/I), Antigoni/Antigone (1961), The Guns of Night (1946). Perrin also directed four films, some of which were Navarone (1961), Attila (1954), Nekri politeia/Dead City (1951) Océans (2009), L'empire du milieu du sud (2002), and Le peuple and Hamenoi angeloi (1948). migrateur/ Winged Migration (2001). He was nominated for two Oscars: Le people migrateur (best documentary, features), and Z Jean-Louis Trintignant (11 December 1930, Piolenc, Vaucluse, (best picture). France—) Janis et John (2003), Un héros très discret/A Self-Made Hero (1996), Fiesta (1995), La cité des enfants perdus/The City of Costa-Gavras Lost Children (1995), Regarde les hommes tomber/See How They Constantin Costa-Gavras, French director and scenarist, was born Fall (1994), Trois couleurs: Rouge/Three Colors: Red (1994), La Konstantinos Gavras in Klivia, in the Greek Pelopponesus (Costa is femme de ma vie/Women of My Life (1986), 15 août (1986), Un short for Constantin, the French form of his name, and he homme et une femme, 20 ans déjà/A Man and a Woman: 20 Years subsequently added the hyphen “to create confusion”). He is one of Later (1986), L'homme aux yeux d'argent (1985), Partir, three sons of a minor government official, Panayotis Gavras, who revenir/Going and Coming Back (1985), L'été prochain/Next emigrated from the Soviet Union in 1922. His father was an atheist, Summer (1985), Viva la vie!/Long Live Life (1984), Under Fire but his mother was a deeply pious member of the Greek Orthodox (1983), Vivement dimanche!/Confidentially Yours (1983), La nuit church. Costa-Gavras says that he was “plunged into religion. de Varennes/That Night in Varennes (1982), Une affaire Completely suffocated by it. The sort of training that made it much d'hommes/Dead Certain (1981), Melancoly Baby/Mélancolie baby easier for me to finally break away from the church.” (1979), Les passagers/The Passengers (1977), L'affaire (1977), La During the German occupation of Greece, Panayotis donna della domenica/The Sunday Woman (1975), Le secret/The Gavras joined the National Liberation Front (EAM); once the war Secret (1974), Le train/The Last Train (1973), Un homme est was over, the right-wing government repeatedly imprisoned him mort/The Outside Man (1972), L'attentat/The Assassination/The and other Resistance fighters as suspected communists, and Costa- French Conspiracy (1972), Il conformist/The Conformist (1970), Gavras was likewise barred from entering the university, holding an Ma nuit chez Maud/My Night at Maud’s (1969), Z (1969), official post, or even obtaining a driver’s license.